Improvement in window-gardens



,-HENRY WHITTEMORE.

Vlmprovement in Window-Gardens.

Patented May 14, 1872.

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. HENRY WHITTEMORE, OF TAPPANTOWN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WINDOW-GARDENS.

SPECIFICATION. I, HENRY WHITTEMORE, of Tappantown,

in the county of Rockland and State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Window-Gardens, of which the following isa specification:

The object of my invention is to obtain a simple and portable garden forthe windows of dwellings, so constructed as to be readily transferredfrom one position to another; and it consists in making a platform ofwood, of any suitable size, and surrounding it by an ornamental fence,constructed in sections, which are locked together and secured to it bymovable fastenings, the platform being supported upon brackets suspendedin such a manner as to bring the surface of the garden iiush with thewall or frame of the window.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a `front elevation of myimproved garden. Fig.

2 is an end view, showing the manner of suspending the brackets from thewall. Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line a: x of Fig.'1.

A is a platform, made of Wood, preferably ot' a length to correspond tothe width of the window. Around the outer edge I place an ornamentalfence, which is constructed in sections b c d c. B B are thecorner-posts, which] are grooved vertically on their inner side toreceive a corresponding projection onthe secgether, and cannot be drawnapart longitudinally or slipped out of place, While to separate them itis only necessary to remove one of the side sections, b, and screw-dropg, when the whole may be drawn apart. E E are brackets of wood, havingtheir inner surface (or th at designed to rest against the wall) groovedvertically the entire length, of sufcient depth to admit of theinsertion of two or more screw-rin gs, h h, sufficiently far enough toleave their edges flush with the surface of the bracket. Screwhooks o oare placed in the wall to receive the rings h h and suspend the gardeniiushwith the adjacent surface.

This method ofsuspendiu g the garden is simple, and does not leave thewall distigured or broken when it is removed.

- My improved Window-garden is specially designed to receive potsv ofiiowers; but I may substitute therefor a pan made of zinc or othersuitable material, of about four inches in depth, which may be filledwith earth for the reception of plants."

What I claim as my invention is l. A window-garden, consisting oftheplatform A, sectional fence b c d e, corner-posts B, and center-posts GC, and brackets E E, constructed and arranged as and for the purpose setforth.

2. The combination of the corner-posts B,

